The terrific Diana Belchase interviewed me at Malice Domestic back in May, and she’s just posted the video on her…
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Fiction: “Rearview Mirror” in The Crooked Road, Volume 3
My story “Rearview Mirror”—which originally appeared in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine and went on to win a Derringer Award—has been…
Continue reading →News: Derringer Award Winners
The Short Mystery Fiction Society has announced the 2012 Derringer Award winners, and I’m thrilled that my story “A Drowning…
Continue reading →News: Derringer Nomination
With apologies for having consecutive blog posts about my own personal news, I’m very pleased that my story “Rearview Mirror,”…
Continue reading →The Business Behind This Business of Writing
Here’s an interesting essay by Dick Bausch from The Atlantic.
Continue reading →Free Book Friday: Blood’s a Rover
A copy of James Ellroy’s Blood’s A Rover appeared on my doorstep this afternoon, as if by magic. I already…
Continue reading →An Incomplete Literary Tour of Ireland
As many folks know, Tara and I built parts of our wedding around a literary theme — and the honeymoon…
Continue reading →Irish Quotes — A Key To My Sources
We’re back from the honeymoon! And because a number of people asked about the quotes that have given some small…
Continue reading →Honeymoon Hiatus: One Last Name That Quote
Poetry rounds out this series of posts. A bit ominous, the opening to this one, but a beautiful work overall.…
Continue reading →Honeymoon Hiatus: Name That Quote 12
I realize, too late, how some of these quotes might be read. I promise that there hasn’t been a night…
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